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Branch VS Fork #22846

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There’s no right or wrong way to do it if it achieves your goals. But, the most common ways people use branches and forks for collaboration is:

  • People who are members of the organization use branches in the organization’s repository
  • People who are not members of the organization use branches in forks of the organization’s repository

So, for example, I am a member of the Atom organization. When I want to suggest a change to anything in the Atom project, I create a branch locally, work on my changes, then push the branch to the GitHub-hosted repo, and open a pull request. However, I am not a member of the Kubernetes organization. If I wanted to  suggest a change to something in the Kubern…

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